The site I’ve chosen to review is called IMLeagues.com. It’s the site this school and a lot of other colleges use to organize intramural sports.
About half of any given page on this site is advertisements. In most circumstances, one could find this unsightly or inconvenient. I like to imagine that IMLeagues was made by a few college fellas that wanted to give some structure to the hectic world of intramural sports. I wouldn’t be surprised if those fellas weren’t even web majors. Just guys that took advantage of the platform.
After initially logging in, the home page of the site becomes your university’s home page, because why would you care about other schools’ intramural sports? From there you can select what active sport you want to take your talents to. When you do that, you’re taken to a page that offers the league’s rules and important dates.
I like how teams and their records remain a constant within a given sport’s family of pages. They’re off to the left, and each team’s name is a link to their roster. It’s the most universally applicable information, and it gives you a way to access the less universally applicable information at any time.
I like IMLeagues. I don’t use it any other time during the year than the month flag football takes place. But during that month, it’s a very valuable resource. As someone who watches real football film for real football games, watching the guys in this league pore over this site – clicking every link, digging to the bottom of every page – is like looking in a funhouse mirror.
Intramural sports are simple, but they can be as infinitely complex as someone is willing to make them. IMLeagues is the same.